Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mar 10Tips for Saving Time In the Kitchen

What? You don't have extra hours every day to spend in the kitchen? C'mon, it's not like you are busy working, folding laundry, cleaning the cat box, being a taxi driver or networking on Facebook and Twitter.... Okay, if you want to serve healthy food to your family, but could use a few tips on how to speed up the process, here are a few ideas: Plan ahead: Select all of the recipes that you plan to use for the week, so that you don’t have to shop at the last minute or resort to...

Mar 8What's Cooking with YOUR Kids: Letting the ...

A huge thanks to my friend Christine Koh, from Boston Mamas, for this week's installment of What's Cooking with YOUR Kids. Christine and I met nearly two years ago (Gasp! Has it really been that long?) when I started writing for her awesome website, Boston Mamas. She must be wonderful if she still lets me write for her site, even though I am from the opposite side of the country! But despite our geographic distance, she and I share a very similar parenting philosophy and care a lot about all...

Mar 6When Blogging Collides with Real Life

I am pretty good at staying on track, but sometimes, I just need to veer off the path a little. Call it a change of scenery. Normally, I blog about cooking with kids, family mealtimes and saving the world helping others. But tonight, I just wanted to give a little shout out to my friend Amy who was in town over the weekend. Amy e-mailed me about 2 months ago, bursting with excitement bout her trip to the Napa Valley with Bush's Beans. She wanted some restaurant recommendations - and I told...

Mar 5San Rafael School District Task Force on School ...

I was nearly giddy with anticipation for our first meeting with the food service administrators from our school district this afternoon. I was nervous that they would be defensive, or that they might have a laundry list of all of the reasons why they were unwilling or unable to make changes in our current food service program. Would they hate me for being outspoken and blabbing about these issues on my blog? I was relieved to find out, though, that while they started off on the tense side, they...

Mar 3Others Who are Taking on the National School Lun...

I am not a sh@t disturber. Really. But when I see something that should be needs to be changed, I think it's okay to speak up...especially when I provide constructive feedback. You'll notice that I'm not a complainer. There's hardly any point in that - nobody listens. (At least with my own kids, complaining isn't a successful strategy for getting something to change.) After our school superintendent responded to my recent post about our sub-par lunch program, I thought I'd point out some...

Mar 1What's Cooking with YOUR Kids - Sweet Potat...

I hope you are loving the What's Cooking with YOUR Kids series on my blog as much as I am. I am thrilled every single time one of my readers sends in a story about cooking with their children. One of the things I love the most is how many "types" of people are bringing their kids into the kitchen. It just goes to prove that you don't have to be a "cook" or nutritionist to get up the chutzpah to cook with your children. What? You don't know what chutzpah (HUD-spah) means? It's Yiddish...